The TNA trounced the ruling UPFA coalition of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, grabbing 30 of the 38 seats in the much-awaited polls in the province.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama will also visit with the victims' families.
The provincial council election is the first in 25 years in the north, once the heartland of Tamil Tiger separatists. President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government is holding the poll after facing international pressure to restore democracy.
Four suicide bombers stormed the police headquarters in a town north of Baghdad at dawn on Saturday, killing six SWAT officers after a one-hour shootout, security sources said.
A Nigerian security official says Islamic extremists attacked a security team in the nation's capital.
An animal-control officer had hundreds of snakes, including two 6-foot (1.8-meter) Burmese pythons, at his home, where he ran an illegal side business selling them, authorities said Thursday.
Children discovered the handcuffed and blindfolded corpses of 10 unidentified young men in eastern Baghdad on Thursday, apparently killed by gunshots to the head, Iraqi police said.
Five men held Mandana and her family at knifepoint and searched her Colombo home in a pre-dawn raid on Aug. 24, before police intervened.
Singer Marvin Humes will reportedly co-host Britain's singing reality show "The Voice".
Singer Nathan Sykes has admitted that he went through a mental breakdown when he was unable to sing following a throat surgery.
Former soccer player David Beckham has got his fashion designer wife Victoria's name inked on his hand. This is his second tattoo featuring her name.
Anyone who enters a child into such a contest would face up to two years in prison and 30,000 euros in fines, according to the measure.
The liger appropriately named Hercules weighs 418kg and lives at Myrtle Beach Safari Wildlife preserve in South Carolina.
Sue, 38, and Noel, 41, from Morecambe, Lancashire, have added to their brood once every 17 months on average for 23 years.
The effort is part of Iranian ambitions to send a human into space by 2018, but questions have been raised about the reported successes of Iran's animal missions.
At least 20 Nato oil tankers were destroyed in an attack by militants in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
He joked yesterday that the "pressure's off" him to settle down and have children now that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have had a baby.
A Thai court on Friday acquitted a man whose own brother accused him of defaming the country's monarch, an extraordinarily grave charge in this Southeast Asian kingdom that is punishable by up to 15 years in jail.
A fire raged through a Russian psychiatric hospital on Friday, killing at least one person and leaving dozens missing as police searched the surrounding area for survivors, emergency and law enforcement officials said.
An Indian American woman in Texas has been arrested on charges of plotting to kill her husband.
China said on Tuesday it backed a Russian proposal for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons for destruction, a plan that could avert planned US military strikes in response to the country's suspected use of its arsenal on civilians.
Ding Shumiao, helped 23 businesses win railway construction contracts and funnelled 49 million yuan worth of kickbacks to former railways minister Liu Zhijun, the official China Daily said, citing Beijing prosecutors.
The airline has ordered an investigation into the incident, which occurred late on Sunday night.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Sinai-based Islamist militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis claimed responsibility for a failed attempt on Thursday to assassinate Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim.
Pictures in Kuwaiti media showed the animal glaring out of the back of a police car after it had been transferred from the passerby's own vehicle. The lion, which police said was a young adult, filled the backseat.
The plan to send living creatures into space was part of the project to send human beings into space within a course of five to eight years, said the Iranian official.
The Nusra Front, a Sunni Muslim group linked to al Qaeda, has emerged as one of the most effective organisations fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The contraceptives, ordered by the youth wing of the National Democratic Party (NPD), came in black boxes bearing the slogan "For foreigners and certain Germans". The activists sent them to lawmakers as a protest against "unchecked immigration".
Nasheed's ouster sparked rowdy protests by his supporters and a heavy-handed police crackdown, pushing the country into crisis. A Commonwealth-backed commission of inquiry later concluded that Nasheed's removal did not constitute a coup.
Pakistan has strongly condemned a US drone strike at Ghulam Khan Tehsil in North Waziristan that claimed six lives early Friday morning.